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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had accused the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) of shooting down proposals to resolve the ongoing Kashmir issue, a cable released by WikiLeaks has claimed.

Causing an embarrassment to Centre, the whistleblower website quoted Omar acknowledging that Pakistan had gone farther than India on the Kashmir issue.

Omar allegedly told US diplomat Dan Burton in 2005 that India did not have a roadmap to solve the issue.

According to WikiLeaks, Omar had said that the prime minister must think outside the box to solve the festering problem. Going a step further, he even accused Centre of being content with the status quo on Kashmir issue.

The chief minister, who was then an MP, even conceded that joint cultural events were not able to help normalise India-Pakistan ties.